I met the guy (Charlie Nakamura) who developed the process. It took a hell of a long time to get everything working at useful efficiency, then a fair amount of development to get it working at scale.
Also see others in this space:
Amyris (older synthetic bio company)
Zymergen (newer synthetic bio company that seems to be doing some of the same things Lygos wants to do)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14580573
I met the guy (Charlie Nakamura) who developed the process. It took a hell of a long time to get everything working at useful efficiency, then a fair amount of development to get it working at scale.
Also see others in this space:
Amyris (older synthetic bio company) Zymergen (newer synthetic bio company that seems to be doing some of the same things Lygos wants to do)